ericius

English

Etymology

From Latin ēricius.

Noun

ericius (plural not attested)

1. (biblical) hedgehog

Latin

Alternative forms

• hēricius

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰḗr (“hedgehog”). Compare ēr (“hedgehog”), and its variant forms.

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [eːˈrɪ.ki.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eˈriː.t͡ʃi.us]

Noun

ēricius m (genitive ēriciī or ēricī); second declension

1. hedgehog

   Synonym: ērināceus

2. (military) A beam armed with sharp spikes.
   • 100 BCE – 44 BCE, Julius Caesar, Bello civili 3.67:

     Erat obiectus portis ericius.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ēricius	ēriciī
genitive	ēriciī ēricī1	ēriciōrum
dative	ēriciō	ēriciīs
accusative	ēricium	ēriciōs
ablative	ēriciō	ēriciīs
vocative	ēricie	ēriciī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• *ēriciō

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: rizzu
• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: ariciu, arici
  • Romanian: arici
  • → Albanian: uriq, iriq
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: ricciu
  • Italian: riccio
  • Sicilian: rizzu m, rizza f (see there for further descendants)
  • Venetan: riço, riso
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: riç, rič
  • Romansh: rizza f
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: rézz, riss, ress
  • Ligurian: riseu, rìsso
  • Lombard: rizz, riss, ress, ariss
  • Piedmontese: ariss, riss
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Northern:
    • Franco-Provençal: héres
  • Southern:
    • Catalan: oriç
    • Old Occitan: aritz
      • Languedocien: eriç, eiriç
      • Vivaro-Alpine: eriç
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: erizo, arizo
  • Asturian: oriciu, ariciu, arizu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Galician: ourizo
    • Portuguese: ouriço, oiriço
  • Spanish: erizo, rizo
• Borrowings:
  • → Basque: kirikino
  • → English: ericius (learned)
  • → Portuguese: erício (learned)
  • → Translingual: Clubiona ericius, Hypostomus ericius, Metabelba ericius

Further reading

• “ericius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ericius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "ericius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “ericius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “ericius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ericius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin